SOUTH AFRICA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8232, 8 September 1906, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

CHINESE ATTACK A TROOPER

Received September 7, 8.30 a.m. CAPETOWN, September 6. A gang of Chinese attacked a solitary trooper stationed in a hut on the Rand. Four were captured, but their comrades released them.

EIGHTEEN COOLIES PUNISHED

Received September 7, 8.43 a.m JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 6.

Eighteen Chinese in Johannesburg have been sentenced to reoeivo twenty lashes and ordered to be imprisoned for seven years for hu attaok on a homestead at Klipriversberg in Maroh.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN LOAN

Received September 7, 10.30 a.m LONDON, September 6.

The Johannesburg correspondent of The Times states that the responso by public men at Johannesburg to the proposed four milium loan is cautious, they being unable to appear to be Committing the colony without a mandate from the electors.

RAILWAY KATES. ;

Received September 7, 10.30 a.m

CAPETOWN, September 6,

Lord Elgin has forbidden the threatened railway rebates. If the Cape and Natal persist Lord Selborne will level up the rates on the Oranize , River (Jolony lines and thus enable Natal to retain the trade in the northern portion of the Orange River Oolony.

THE INDEPEND3NT LABOURITES.

Received September 7, 9.2 p.m. PRETORIA, Sepfcemfcei 7

The Independent Laborites at Pretoria have pledged themselves to oppose every oandidate not promising to endeavour to eeoure for the people a fair share of the total profits of the mines.

THE LATE NATAL REBELLION

Received September 7, 10.23 p.m. PIETERMARITZBURG, Sept. 7. Mjongo, who ia oharged with the murder of Inspector Hunt and Trooper Armstrong, at Richmond, claimed that he implored the natives not to tight. All the natives implicated belonged to the African Church, whioh is without European pastors.